On Sat, Dec 19 2015, Scott Sinno wrote: > Neil(or anyone well informed in mdadm development roadmaps), > > Aaron and myself are engineers at NASA Goddard with strong interest in > MDADM. We currently host 6PB(raw) of live JBOD storage leveraging MDADM > exclusively for RAID functionality. > > We're very interested in Clustered MDADM to improve data-availability > in the environment, but note that only RAID1 is currently supported. > Are there plans in the nearish-term(say over the next year) to expound > clustered bitmap functionality to RAID5/6, or anything else you can > divulge on that front? Thanks in advance for any guidance. We don't talk about plans that are not backed by code - you can't trust them. However I cannot imagine how you could make RAID5 work efficiently in a cluster. RAID1 works because we assume that the file system will have its own locking to ensure that only one node writes to a given block at a given time. So while node-A is writing to a block, RAID1 knows that no other node is writing there so it can update all copies and be sure no race will result in the copies being inconsistent. For this to work with RAID5 we would need to assume the filesystem will ensure only one node is writing to a given stripe at a time, and that is not realistic. So to make it work we would need the md layer to lock each stripe during an update. I have trouble imagining that running with much speed. Hard to know without testing of course. I know of no-one with plans to do that testing. NeilBrown
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